Translate WeChat voice messages and calls

How to set it up

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   For voice messages: “Live Listen” with “Screen sound”

   Start Tingdong, then press play on the voice message in the WeChat Mac app. Captions appear as it plays: the original line on top, your language below.

2. 2
   For calls: take the call in the WeChat Mac app

   Pick “Call Translation” in Tingdong, then choose “Tingdong Microphone” (Website version) as the mic in WeChat’s settings. That single choice is the whole setup.

3. 3
   Talk, or just read along

   They hear your voice plus a translated voice (Website version); you read bilingual captions. If you only need to understand them, “Live Listen” captions the call without using your mic.

Supplier calls are where the stakes sit

Most people who need this are not chatting — they are checking a price, a quantity, a lead time or a shipping date with a factory, an agent or a partner, and a misheard number costs money. Two things help there. The original line stays on screen above the translation, so a figure or a product code can be checked against what was actually said. And the translation runs as a continuous stream with context across sentences rather than message by message, which is what keeps a long voice message — the kind that arrives as six recordings in a row — readable end to end. Language is detected per phrase among 60+ inputs, so a call that moves between Mandarin and English needs no setting change.

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